Cryptic crossword No 229
Sat 20 Nov 2021, set byPiper
Special Instructions: Nine of the down clues lead to a name, but only the second name should be entered in the grid
Across
- The artist transformed ability to feel emotion (5)
- Fume giver generates concoction to get rid of worms (9)
- Hard time, rely on right to produce wind (9)
- 27a for old fellow (5)
- Inside classroom, nib used for collection of work (7)
- Listens in on swearing, no new suspect (7)
- Venue where Aretha covers number without confines of 9ac (5)
- From outset, Okonedo reads beautifully at Globe (3)
- Periods of enlightenment? Essentially, erudite Cervantes crowned Spanish Renaissance (5)
- A mother with vitality is inspiring (7)
- As if congested, beginnings of nasty aggravated sinuses encountered by friend (7)
- Regurgitate half of budgerigar to get rid of insects (5)
- Evidence way to enhance flavour with final bit of pepper in place of pinch of salt (9)
- Cut back on endless cheese in one Italian dish (9)
- Arrived and left on transport in desert (5)
Down
- Singer relies on mixture of calcium, sodium, 2 parts hydrogen, 2 parts potassium and a bit of alchemy (5) (4)
- Campaigner for reform of law, order and limitless sentences loses time (6) (8)
- Solver, reportedly, with headgear back to front, in a state (4)
- Author of “The Saint in Troubled First Woman Toff” (10) (8)
- Sounds like a sensitive area exposed to the sea perhaps (6)
- Charts a ship rated unexpectedly (3,7)
- Artist, from the start, zany and nonconformist, eschews London exhibition, making up her own local itinerary (6) (6)
- See 29
- Lawyer found in terrible place surrounded by vermin, around two degrees (8)
(5)
- Corroborating point made public (7,3)
- Lively animal put into empty sty (5)
- Baroness catches movement as the Spanish and French align with African nation divided by difficult situation (7) (8)
- Calm cut short by a determination I am seeing at first in sportswoman (6) (8)
- Politician floundering in debate about exiting EU (5) (6)
- Musician buying a car, a wreck (5) (6)
- Skilful, fed up with suggestion of training (4)
- Previously seen in Hendon Central (4)
- Orchestrate deal in reverse auction for bit of bling? (8)
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